Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic

Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thank you for joining me today as we

pull one more out of the Not Done Yet Patreon Vault, this time connecting Dominic Dunn and Truman Capote in 1975, where both men are

truly in decline stages. Dominic Dunn has not quite yet hit Rock Bottom to make the changes

he will in his third act. Truman Capote, on the other hand, is perhaps realizing the gravity of the release of those

chapters of answered prayers, burning all his friends in print and torching all of those

relationships so carefully built in one fail swoop.

We go a lot of places in this episode from Hollywood to Key West Florida,

as Truman Capote was playing in that scene too in the 1970s.

A lot of spiderwebs in this one, including an appearance by Jimmy Buffett, too.

It truly is all connected. Let's investigate. Hey, friends, it's Alicia, and I am not done yet talking about Dominic Dunn and Truman Capote.

This episode has, I think, a really interesting story with a lot of spider webs and a lot of names in it.

To set a little bit of a stage long before Dominic Dunn gets that letter from Truman Capote at his Oregon cabin.

This particular story is going to be sourced from Robert Hoffler's fantastic book, Money, Murder, and Dominic Dunn, A Life in Several Acts.

This particular piece of the component, I think, is really interesting, not just to describe or unpack this complicated relationship between Truman and Dominic,

but also to set the stage with kind of what is happening and,

oh, God, how all the people and all these connections come together.

So I'm taking this bit from Robert Hoffler's book.

This is page 77.

This is the chapter about David Bagelman, who we've talked about.

We're going to get back in to that story as it progresses along Dunn's third act.

But remember David Bagelman stole the, signed, cheated Cliff Robertson out of money, who was married to

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